Novello made his stage debut in 1921 in Deburau by Sacha Guitry with Robert Loraine, Madge Titheradge and Bobbie Andrews, and among other stage engagements, in the next years he played Bingley in an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with Ben Webster as D ' Arcy and Mary Jerrold as Elizabeth, in a cast that included Ellen Terry, May Whitty and Joyce Carey.

ABC Radio aired an adaptation in 1949, directed by Homer Fickett and starring Burgess Meredith and Joyce Redman.

She also starred as the lead in her father's final directorial film, The Dead ( 1987 ), an adaptation of a James Joyce story.

Travis had the leading role of psychology professor Dr. Joyce Reardon in 2002's four-hour television adaptation of Stephen King's Rose Red.

** Ulysses ( 20th Century adaptation of Homer's Odyssey by James Joyce )

In 2003, she starred opposite Paul Giamatti in the movie adaptation of the Harvey Pekar comic American Splendor as the comic book version of Pekar's real-life wife, Joyce Brabner.

In 1998 he was chosen by Emmy award winning artist William Joyce to compose the music for his stage adaptation of The Leafmen and the Brave Good Bugs.

The company has also presented several world premieres, including most notably Meltdown, John Lazarus's astonishing retelling of the myth of Daedalus, Icarus and the Minotaur ; the collectively created community play about Kingston's social stratification, Princess Street: The Great Divide ; Fred Euringer's Night Noises, about a nineteenth-century nutritionist who connived at the starvation deaths of his own children, and Craig Walker's Chantecler, a musical based loosely on the play by Edmond Rostand and his Finnegans Wake: a dream play, an innovative adaptation from the novel by James Joyce which enjoyed a successful run not only in Kingston, but at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.

In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.

In 1995, Cuarón released his first feature film produced in the United States, A Little Princess, an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel.

Cuarón's feature, Children of Men, an adaptation of the P. D. James novel starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine, received wide critical acclaim, including three Academy Award nominations.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

In 1999, Dark Horse Comics released a graphic novel adaptation of Whedon's original script under the title, The Origin.

In 2009, Panettiere starred again as a cheerleader, this time as Beth Cooper in the film adaptation of the novel I Love You, Beth Cooper.

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

In David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of the first novel, De Vries was played by Brad Dourif.

In 1971, Trumbo directed the film adaptation of his novel Johnny Got His Gun, which starred Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland.

The 1980 novel The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin is set in Dahomey, as is its film adaptation, Cobra Verde ( 1987 ) by Werner Herzog.

Bowie explored new directions on The Buddha of Suburbia ( 1993 ), a soundtrack album of incidental music composed for the TV series adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's novel.

He had asked Raimi if he would direct a theatrical adaptation of the Stephen King ( written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym ) novel Thinner.

In 1983, he directed The Outsiders, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton.

* And Quiet Flows the Don ( 1957-8 ) by Sergei Gerasimov-an adaptation of the Nobel prize winning novel And Quiet Flows the Don.

François Truffaut wrote and directed a film adaptation of the novel in 1966.

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

In the mid-1960s he worked on pre-production for an adaptation of Martin Caidin's novel Marooned but budgetary constraints made him eventually shelve it.

During the autumn, Fellini researched and developed a treatment based on a film adaptation of Mario Tobino ’ s novel, The Free Women of Magliano.

In 2005, an adaptation of the novel was released on CD by the BBC Radio Collection to finally complete the run of Wimsey adaptations begun with Whose Body?

The Chambers were used as part of the location for The House of Mirth an adaptation of the novel by Edith Wharton by Terence Davies starring Gillian Anderson and Dan Aykroyd.

The Japanese Takarazuka Revue produced a musical adaptation of the novel.

The film adaptation of the novel " amplified this effect ".

Trent's Last Case is an adaptation of British author E. C. Bentley's 1913 novel of the same name, and had already been adapted to film in England in 1920.

Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.

* Dune ( designs for unproduced Alejandro Jodorowsky adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel ; the movie Dune was later made in an adaptation by David Lynch.

Although filmed in color, instead of black and white as the earlier 1930 film adaptation was, the wasted and desolated landscapes and environment are very effectively conveyed.

Bogart and Bacall also worked together on an early color telecast, in 1955, an NBC adaptation of The Petrified Forest for Producers ' Showcase ; only a black and white kinescope of the live telecast has survived.

According to Melvin Van Peebles, the original production was of a white detective story, but following the success of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the original script was scrapped in favor of an adaptation of Ernest Tidyman's 1970 novel Shaft, which focused on a black detective.

The latter half of the 1940s saw Hobson in perhaps her two most memorable roles: as the adult Estella in David Lean's 1946 adaptation of Great Expectations, and as the refined and virtuous Edith D ' Ascoyne in the 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets.

* Abolition movement — The addition of Mexico's former territories in 1848 at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War reopened the possibility of the expansion of race-based chattel slavery ; the adaptation of the slave system to industrial-style cotton production resulted in increasing dehumanization of black workers and a backlash against slavery in the northern states ; key figures included William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.

* In 1964, Ken Russell directed a black and white film adaptation for BBC 2, with Bryan Pringle in the title role and Jonathan Cecil as Cummings.

He collaborated with Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens on Ragtime in 1997, a musical adaptation of the E. L. Doctorow novel, which tells the story of Coalhouse Walker Jr., a fiery black piano man who demands retribution when his Model T is destroyed by a mob of white troublemakers.

In 1968, he published the first version of Une Tempête, a radical adaptation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest for a black audience.

It is presumed that their unusually aggressive nest defense is an adaptation to tree-climbing bears species, such as the black bear in North America.

One comic book adaptation of the film ( Whitman comics, published in 1980 ) bypasses the whole issue of what happens inside the black hole by having the crew enter the black hole on one page and emerge apparently unharmed on the next page into a parallel universe where they encounter alternate versions of Reinhardt, Old B. O. B.

This key differentiation is further illustrated by the shape of the two species mouths ( lips ): the " square " lip of the white rhinoceros is an adaptation for grazing, and the " hooked " lip of the black rhinoceros is an adaptation to help browsing.

The vulture ’ s head and neck are featherless as an adaptation for hygiene, though there are black bristles on parts of the head ; this lack of feathers prevents bacteria from the carrion it eats from ruining its feathers and exposes the skin to the sterilizing effects of the sun.

Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom is the big-screen adaptation of Patrik-Ian Polk's groundbreaking black gay television series.

* It is used in the Irish adaptation of the folk song Foggy Dew, about the Easter Rising of 1916, " Oh the night fell black and the rifles ' crack Made perfidious Albion reel ".

In Jackson's adaptation, the Watcher is portrayed as a colossal, black, giant squid-like monster with a gaping mouth and rows of sharp teeth.

* Lawrence Sanderson is a bald black man who was a representative of the investors in the bungled stage adaptation of Shock Treatment and an investor in Boston's theater scene.

Previously, black furred felines in the Aberdares had been considered a high altitude adaptation since black fur absorbs more heat.

" In the comic strip adaptation of Mort, Death is seen in mirrors as a black-bearded human wearing a black cloak, and also seen as this when he needs to be seen by the living.

The adaptation is generally faithful to the novel, with one significant exception: it makes Imoinda white instead of black ( see Macdonald ), and therefore, like Othello, the male lead would perform in blackface to a white heroine.

One is grey glass ( black in the film adaptation ) and the other is off-white, with a tiny, pinhole-sized pupil.

English adaptation by Alan Greenberg, with black and white photos by Alan Greenberg.